Middle management is only concerned with putting a feather in their cap for the next promotion. Upper management is bloated and out of touch. Perks have been widdled away, no more paid sick time (replaced it with 40 hours of PTO, which means 3 days working shift), sanitation staff was gutted, now the understaffed technician group is required to pick up that slack, quarterly bonus went from up to $750 to $80, and I’m sure I’m forgetting some. Turnover is horrible, crews constantly running short, sometimes operating 2 areas. The plant is 30 years old and they want to spend no money to repair it. Several roof leaks, holes in the floor, pipes that are paper thin, etc. Maintenance department ignores reliability tests and runs equipment to failure. Salaried employees still get 2-4K annual bonus Covid hazard pay was a salted nut roll. Not kidding. There is an illusion of having all these days off, they will bring you in for countless mandatory meetings. If you get on a safety guy’s bad side, they will do more work than they had all year to find a reason to fire you. Supervisor team does not communicate well, no one wants to be the bottleneck, so plant rate is never stable and quality suffers. Training is horrible. We even have a training role that has not improved this. Some engineers have a know-it-all attitude that is extremely off-putting when you have 10 years of experience making product. Once a technician gets a day gig, all accountability goes out the window. You may never see them for a month. I’m sure there are more, but who wants to read all that?
